13 February 2012

Talkback


a riot broke out
at the radio station
police were called in
to quell the listener response

nursing home residents
addicted to their man’s
frenzied fricatives
voluble vowels
garrulous glottal stops
dubious diphthongs
nagging nasals
and crazed consonants

surged out of their recliner chairs
and headed there in mini-buses
when a stand-in for their man
dared to let a caller ask
why

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